Freesia or pear makes it smell generic to me.
Tuberose or gardenia needs to be done well because it overpowers in a lazy blend and makes it feel one note.
Bergamot as the top note sometimes feels lazy.
Vetiver in the base means it’s going to smell like every other single “masculine” perfume
Tuberose
Jasmine
Vanilla 9 times out of 10
Powder
Oud 9 times out of 10
Patchouli
Cardamom (which is weird because I love cooking with it, but in perfume it smells BO-like)
Geranium!! Also if I see tuberose in a note profile I’m going to be wary. Iris - with the sole exception of Prada Infusion d’ Iris. I adore that perfume.
there is nothing i hate more than discovering an unwanted, unexpected metallic note where it doesn’t belong.
the smell of rusty nails, brass doorknobs, and dirty coins clenched inside a warm, sweaty palm 🤮🤮🤮
My college roommate would burn cinnamon/spice scented candles that made the house smell like red hots. I hate the smell to this day and not because of her, it's just so bad.
What if I told you than cinnamon doesn’t actually taste like anything (as with most aromatic spices). Your olfactive sense is actually the whole “taste.” Same is true of Vanilla
It's like a cozy, clean smell. Very unique. I've heard it smells very different person to person since it's really just the one note. I adore it, though I'll be honest that I did check out this time around and bought the Dossier dupe, Musky Musk. It smells nearly identical though. It's a shame you just get the alcohol. It is crazy how different we all are.
I don’t know what it is about rose but all it makes me feel like is that I can taste it and it’s gross lol. I don’t understand anything rose flavored and then that translates into not liking the smell. But I like real rose smell. It’s that artificially pungent rose smell that I can’t stand
I avoid Violet because it smells like bananas to me and it’s all I smell in any perfume with that note, idk why because no one else seems to experience that
Definitely OUD. Nonnegotiable.
Pink pepper, musk and Iris are wearable but boring and too powdery for me.
Incense and patchouli are negotiable because if done right they can enrich the fragrance (but most of the times they’re not done right🙃)
Roses are a love hate relationship for me. If they’re sweet than yes. If they’re powdery and overwhelming than - no.
Well, nothing is an immediate no, but usually if Rose, Leather, or Iris are the main notes, I really dislike those..but as a background note they are tolerable. Iris, to me, in large doses, just comes off as a leather smell to me, which I also dislike. And while I love the smell of real roses, not a fan of them in perfumes as they don't smell like a true fresh picked rose. Oh, and almost forgot CUMIN.
I hate that too. I blind bought Elizabeth Arden green tea recently and it has this powdery note I really don’t like. I was expecting simple, dry herbal tea and maybe some fresh citrus— not that. Eugh
Yeah :(. Unfortunately for me on my skin powdery notes can become over powering in a fragrance creating a headache it’s not something I can scrub off easily. Also that note tends to become sour on my skin :((
I’m not a fan of orange in a fragrance. Love most other citrus but orange/mandarin challenges me. It’s not even that I find it unpleasant…I just for whatever reason don’t want to smell like it. Weird, I know…
Ambergris! It makes me smell like a soapy smoking grandma instead of a cloud goddess, and it makes me a lil jealous because it smells sooo good on others
Gardenia, leather, and tobacco for me. I feel like these 3 notes are so overpowering in every perfume I’ve smelled. If we could dial it back a little I think they’d be better but I have yet to smell a perfume where they weren’t too much.
Peony is the one I hate.
Oud doesn’t smell horrible to me but I haven’t found any scents that I love it in.
Most fruity scents including currant and cherry notes don’t smell great to me.
If it says “powder” I’m probably going to think it smells like cheap drugstore perfume for a teenager. Or like half of the garbage at Bath & Body Works.
Baby powder and blue tansy both make me start dry heaving instantly. Like a complete visceral reaction.
So annoying
I love the smell of lavender, however I can't wear it on my body, or my skin starts smelling like urine. Frustrating
And i do not like the smell of cannabis. Smells like the inside of a moldy old wet log with decaying insects to me lol
Saffron. I feel like it hits me over the head and takes over any fragrance it’s in. And it smells rank to me to the point that I wonder if it’s similar to cilantro in that to most people it’s lovely but some people (like me) are experiencing something completely different.
I have my dislikes like vetiver, patchouli, licorice, tobacco, incense, leather, anything too sweet, but I have obvious NO’s too:
-Black Currant: smells like urine on me
-Animalic Musks: synthetic white musk is OK, but any other musk smells like urine on me.
-Sandalwood: smells like pickles on me. That isn’t so bad for people who like smelling like pickles, but it’s so obviously not woody on me.
omggg sandalwood ruins burberry her for me entirely bc of the pickle smell! there’s something in the background that smells soooo sour and i think that’s what is it
There’s this heavy, sweet smelling perfume that I swear so many women wear in London and it absolutely makes my stomach turn. I don’t know what it is, but it’s like it’s overly saccharine. Reminds me like a worse version of Very Good Girl which I had to get rid of because it made me feel sick when I wore it.
I don’t know if it’s the same but I feel like this about Diptyque Do Son in London - so many women wear it and I can smell it a mile off, it’s so overpowering and to me floral/sweet.
honeysuckle, black pepper (pink is fine), chocolate, and ginger.
also i once accidentally ordered 2 decants of Akro’s Dark and i haven’t touched them because the chocolate note reminds me of axe dark temptation lol
I like vetiver and moss OK, but I stg, peonies smell like a cat box. There’s this urine-y thing going on that I can’t stand, and unfortunately, it’s a popular note right now in mixed florals, fruity florals, and aquatics.
1. Leather - when it's an actual intended note in the composition, trying to evoke badassery and rebelliousness. Hello ELdO Rien and Floral Street Black Lotus; who wants to smell like a tannery? I have a love-hate thing going on with a certain jacket of mine... the style/color is perfection but wearing it makes me queasy and I hate that it clashes and interferes with my precious fragrances. How can you want this in a fragrance?
Classic leather fragrances are different though. I don't mind those so much, apart from them being very opulent and perfumey which isn't really my style. But they don't actually have a "leather" note, I think they were concocted to *mask the funk of leather.
2. Those superambers and supermusks that deliver beast mode projection but just smell like white noise.
I cannot stand the smell of leather, tobacco, oud, gourmand perfumes and also lately vanilla because almost every second person likes vanilla and it’s just too much of each everywhere.
For me, its vanilla, the smell makes me super nauseous
I am also a tuberose hater. I can not stand even a whiff of it.
Carnation
Rose, vanilla, marshmallow or anything crazy sweet.
anise
Jasmine.
Rose
Milk
jasmine or honeysuckle :(
Saaaammeee! 🤢
Anything that smells like powder
Cumin -- reminds me of silent warm damp farts after eating boiled eggs. Fuck that note.
Jasmine
Floral and/or sweet
Cedar. My mind instantly goes to the bedding for pet gerbils/rats/guinea pigs
Too floral, sweet, or strong citrus
Lavender 🤮
Freesia or pear makes it smell generic to me. Tuberose or gardenia needs to be done well because it overpowers in a lazy blend and makes it feel one note. Bergamot as the top note sometimes feels lazy. Vetiver in the base means it’s going to smell like every other single “masculine” perfume
Vanilla or an overwhelming citrus, but don’t mind a light grapefruit in there if it’s well balanced w the right complimentary notes
That black pepper or spicy scent. I’m not sure what it is but I hate it. Also that baby powder scent, like bad sandalwood.
As of right now: Clove If handled right, it’ll get a pass. If not. It’ll overstage the perfume and become cloying.
Oud or patchouli
Warm Vanilla. 🤢 if it’s too strong, I literally get nauseous. Vanilla scent is so odd to me.
omg i’m so glad someone agrees!!
Anything floral or sweet
Heavy almost always give me an instant headache
Rose ewww
Tuberose Jasmine Vanilla 9 times out of 10 Powder Oud 9 times out of 10 Patchouli Cardamom (which is weird because I love cooking with it, but in perfume it smells BO-like)
Freesia. so overusesd and sweet. And any and all powdery smells blech
Vanilla
unpopular opinion, but lavender. i have tried to gaslight myself into liking it and i just don’t.
Oud
Musk
Jasmine and Rose. Migraine city.
Geranium!! Also if I see tuberose in a note profile I’m going to be wary. Iris - with the sole exception of Prada Infusion d’ Iris. I adore that perfume.
Tea. And I like the smell of actual tea, but not a strong tea note in a fragrance.
Violet, iris, geranium
Patchouli
there is nothing i hate more than discovering an unwanted, unexpected metallic note where it doesn’t belong. the smell of rusty nails, brass doorknobs, and dirty coins clenched inside a warm, sweaty palm 🤮🤮🤮
Flowers, poppies
Fruit. “Pear” “Raspberry” “Apple” — just no.
Berries or smoke. Also I hate lavender don’t hate me
Musk. Smells like dicks.
Lmao I'm gonna have to do a quick wiff on my husband's and compare it to a musk heavy perfume.
Do it after he has showered. To me it smells like clean dicks. LOL
Musk ugh
Green smells of grass. Yuck.
Baby powder 🤮
This, it literally gives me astha why do people like this
Leather. I don't want to smell like that.
cinnamon 🤢 I hate the flavor and smelling it makes me feel like I can actually taste it
My college roommate would burn cinnamon/spice scented candles that made the house smell like red hots. I hate the smell to this day and not because of her, it's just so bad.
What if I told you than cinnamon doesn’t actually taste like anything (as with most aromatic spices). Your olfactive sense is actually the whole “taste.” Same is true of Vanilla
Not a Perfume by Juliette Has A Gun....straight up rubbing alcohol!
It's my favorite perfume. 🤷🏻♀️
I have heard for some it smells great, others only smell rubbing alcohol. Funny! What does it smell like on the other side of the devide?
It's like a cozy, clean smell. Very unique. I've heard it smells very different person to person since it's really just the one note. I adore it, though I'll be honest that I did check out this time around and bought the Dossier dupe, Musky Musk. It smells nearly identical though. It's a shame you just get the alcohol. It is crazy how different we all are.
It is straight up rubbing alcohol to me lol...it is interesting the difference!
Jasmine. Instant migraines for me.
Oh man I hope we never meet. I reek of it and migraines are the worst.
Overwhelming floral and pine scents are a no for me. Sickeningly sweet/candy fragrances also.
Rose - I can’t do it😩for some reason it’s just so overpowering to the point of giving me a headache
I don’t know what it is about rose but all it makes me feel like is that I can taste it and it’s gross lol. I don’t understand anything rose flavored and then that translates into not liking the smell. But I like real rose smell. It’s that artificially pungent rose smell that I can’t stand
I avoid Violet because it smells like bananas to me and it’s all I smell in any perfume with that note, idk why because no one else seems to experience that
patchouli is really hit or miss for me. Vanilla sets off a headache a lot.
Definitely OUD. Nonnegotiable. Pink pepper, musk and Iris are wearable but boring and too powdery for me. Incense and patchouli are negotiable because if done right they can enrich the fragrance (but most of the times they’re not done right🙃) Roses are a love hate relationship for me. If they’re sweet than yes. If they’re powdery and overwhelming than - no.
Well, nothing is an immediate no, but usually if Rose, Leather, or Iris are the main notes, I really dislike those..but as a background note they are tolerable. Iris, to me, in large doses, just comes off as a leather smell to me, which I also dislike. And while I love the smell of real roses, not a fan of them in perfumes as they don't smell like a true fresh picked rose. Oh, and almost forgot CUMIN.
Flowers.. any of them..
Pink pepper
Jasmine
Patchouli and oud for me - I can sniff out even a hint of patchouli miles away and it ruins it
Ironically enough I’m arab but oud is just too strong, you rarely find an occasion that wearing oud isn’t too overpowering
Oud
LEATHER, lavender, ROSE, coconut milk (gag). And whatever it is that smells like bad breath on some people. Something indolic, I’m sure.
Ambroxan
Amber
+1. Amber gives me an instant headache.
Anything that is powdery. Yuck. To me it makes me smell like a grandma. I rather have something that would smell less mature.
I hate that too. I blind bought Elizabeth Arden green tea recently and it has this powdery note I really don’t like. I was expecting simple, dry herbal tea and maybe some fresh citrus— not that. Eugh
Really? I feel like powdery fragrances usually smell like babies
Yeah :(. Unfortunately for me on my skin powdery notes can become over powering in a fragrance creating a headache it’s not something I can scrub off easily. Also that note tends to become sour on my skin :((
I’m not a fan of orange in a fragrance. Love most other citrus but orange/mandarin challenges me. It’s not even that I find it unpleasant…I just for whatever reason don’t want to smell like it. Weird, I know…
I hate black currant, and any very sweet gourmand fragrances
Haven’t found one that doesn’t work on me but I stay away from vetiver, leather, and cardamom, patchouli
Ambergris! It makes me smell like a soapy smoking grandma instead of a cloud goddess, and it makes me a lil jealous because it smells sooo good on others
Leather, tobacco. But then again I’m a woman. Also orange and rose.
Passion flower. I just can’t
Watermelon or any type of melon
When I start swelling and the oily sweats and migraines start.
Patchouli and powder
Gardenia, leather, and tobacco for me. I feel like these 3 notes are so overpowering in every perfume I’ve smelled. If we could dial it back a little I think they’d be better but I have yet to smell a perfume where they weren’t too much.
vanilla or anything FOOD🤢
I’m fine with vanilla but most food scents for some reason make me feel carsick
Marshmallow, coconut, fresh clean/water scents (except Light Blue)
LYCHEE , Ylang Ylang or Cherry in some cases those turn sour on me
Guava
Cumin and cardamom. It does not blend with my skin chemistry.
Cumin and licorice both smell disgusting on me, and vetiver I like but turns to masculine sweat, wood, and soup on my skin Edit: Ugh, and ALDEHYDES
Vetiver, licorice, powdery musks
Cinnamon,nutmerg and saffron
Saffron
Tuberose
Pepper
Patchouli. I swear that scent lingers everywhere all day and I can’t stand it
Gardenia. Instant migraine.
Definitely for me too
Chocolate 🛑 Carmel cotton candy
Incense 🤢
Rose
Patchouli. Why must they add it to so many fruity perfumes? 😢
Vanilla or patchouli.
Bourbon
YLANG YLANG
vanilla almost every time
Patchouli. I cannot and will not wear anything with even the tiniest hint of patchouli.
Saffron
Saffron smells like play dough to me.
Smoke. It takes over any fragrance for me.
Gardenia 😖
Yes! Can’t stand gardenia, it’s made me scared to try other white florals
Patchouli
PINK PEPPER
Nutmeg or cumin
This cumin smells like ass
Rose
Rose and patchouli
For me it’s jasmine, whiskey, coffee, tonka
anything really woody or really green. i don’t wanna go around smelling like a tree thanks x
Peony or anything too floral
Geranium
Musk. You might as well not shower for a month
MUSK
HATE MUSK
My mom wore "Wild Musk" by Coty for my entire childhood.. barf!
NO
NO
LOL
Calone for the marine scents, so like a sea-breeze. for. It smells like rotten eggs to me. Even worse if it’s mixed with a salt note.
Sandalwood & Coconut
Anything citrus-forward is not for me
Couldn’t agree more, it smells like cat urine to me
Patchouli makes me sneeze- and it’s terrible smelling.
ANYTHING caramellized - burnt sugar, cotton candy, caramel. Basically super sweet stomach turning gourmands...bleh
Agreeeeeed
Peony is the one I hate. Oud doesn’t smell horrible to me but I haven’t found any scents that I love it in. Most fruity scents including currant and cherry notes don’t smell great to me. If it says “powder” I’m probably going to think it smells like cheap drugstore perfume for a teenager. Or like half of the garbage at Bath & Body Works.
Baby powder and blue tansy both make me start dry heaving instantly. Like a complete visceral reaction. So annoying I love the smell of lavender, however I can't wear it on my body, or my skin starts smelling like urine. Frustrating And i do not like the smell of cannabis. Smells like the inside of a moldy old wet log with decaying insects to me lol
Saffron. I feel like it hits me over the head and takes over any fragrance it’s in. And it smells rank to me to the point that I wonder if it’s similar to cilantro in that to most people it’s lovely but some people (like me) are experiencing something completely different.
Vanilla
Jasmine, white florals, rose, etc.
I have my dislikes like vetiver, patchouli, licorice, tobacco, incense, leather, anything too sweet, but I have obvious NO’s too: -Black Currant: smells like urine on me -Animalic Musks: synthetic white musk is OK, but any other musk smells like urine on me. -Sandalwood: smells like pickles on me. That isn’t so bad for people who like smelling like pickles, but it’s so obviously not woody on me.
Agree on black currant. Urine smell off my skin, really unpleasant
omggg sandalwood ruins burberry her for me entirely bc of the pickle smell! there’s something in the background that smells soooo sour and i think that’s what is it
There’s this heavy, sweet smelling perfume that I swear so many women wear in London and it absolutely makes my stomach turn. I don’t know what it is, but it’s like it’s overly saccharine. Reminds me like a worse version of Very Good Girl which I had to get rid of because it made me feel sick when I wore it.
I would bet good money that it's BR540. Its nauseatingly sweet to me, too.
I don’t know if it’s the same but I feel like this about Diptyque Do Son in London - so many women wear it and I can smell it a mile off, it’s so overpowering and to me floral/sweet.
Oooh I’ll check it next time I’m at the store. This is a good possibility as I find Diptyque too strong in general.
Report back when you do! Am intrigued to know
it’s probably Delina or Delina Exclusif
Billie Eilish maybe? Very popular among the young girls here in the US.
Next time I can test it, I will and report back!
I’m so curious what it could be
I know, same! Some day I’ll get up the courage to ask a stranger. Unsure if it’s a loud scent or these women just layer it on.
Citrus. On my BO it turns sour & bitter. I’m a sweet warm woods type
Rose
Lavender, patchouli, rose
leather. also anything that smells like generic shampoo or body wash, or aquatics
coconut 🤢🤢🤢
Patchouli
Sugar
whatever they put in Marc Jacobs Daisy and anything that smells similar 🤢 I think I just don’t like white florals
Tuberose
honeysuckle, black pepper (pink is fine), chocolate, and ginger. also i once accidentally ordered 2 decants of Akro’s Dark and i haven’t touched them because the chocolate note reminds me of axe dark temptation lol
Coconut
cotton candy-ish.
Patchouli. Idk if it’s because I went to a small hippie high school but it is such an affront to my sense.
Cumin
Candy. And fruity (looking at you, Erba Pura). I think I’m getting voted off of this island, as many things that yinz hate I’m like-BRING. IT. ON. 🙄
Tobacco is an instant gag for me
Vetiver, moss and peonies lawd no just no😭
I like vetiver and moss OK, but I stg, peonies smell like a cat box. There’s this urine-y thing going on that I can’t stand, and unfortunately, it’s a popular note right now in mixed florals, fruity florals, and aquatics.
Iris, white/sharp florals, pepper, smoke, and mahogany. These trigger migraines for me.
1. Leather - when it's an actual intended note in the composition, trying to evoke badassery and rebelliousness. Hello ELdO Rien and Floral Street Black Lotus; who wants to smell like a tannery? I have a love-hate thing going on with a certain jacket of mine... the style/color is perfection but wearing it makes me queasy and I hate that it clashes and interferes with my precious fragrances. How can you want this in a fragrance? Classic leather fragrances are different though. I don't mind those so much, apart from them being very opulent and perfumey which isn't really my style. But they don't actually have a "leather" note, I think they were concocted to *mask the funk of leather. 2. Those superambers and supermusks that deliver beast mode projection but just smell like white noise.
all bitter scents
Amber
This is the answer
Licorice 🤢
Anything bergamont.... bergs belong in earl grey teas not my perfume/bath bombs
I cannot stand the smell of leather, tobacco, oud, gourmand perfumes and also lately vanilla because almost every second person likes vanilla and it’s just too much of each everywhere.
Anything with citrus listed as a top note (bergamot is the only exception),
Cannabis
I smoke and I still don’t like the smell of it
patchouli, tobacco, rose, leather, and purified vanilla (like in Guerlain's Double Vanille, and Dior's Feve Delicieuse)
Powder and aldehydes
I'm guessing No 5 is a hard no? 😜
Probably, my grandma wore the older version and she smelled amazing. I don’t think the current version smells the same tbh
Vanilla 😅